2012Bob Birch, American bass player and saxophonist (born 1956)[†]
Robert Wayne Birch was an American musician, best known as the bass player for Elton John.
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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Bob Birch, American bass player and saxophonist (born 1956)[†]
Robert Wayne Birch was an American musician, best known as the bass player for Elton John.
2012Altamiro Carrilho, Brazilian flute player and composer (born 1924)[†]
Altamiro Carrilho was a Brazilian musician and composer. He is widely regarded as a master flutist and a major representative of the choro genre.
2012Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (born 1925)[†]
Harry Max Harrison was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Long resident in both Ireland and the United Kingdom, Harrison was involved in the foundation of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was, with Brian Aldiss, co-president of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.
Judlau Contracting and Dragados, partners working on the Long Island Rail Road extension project, have traded charges over who is responsible for a $250 million loss.
As Russia’s military has cut back Kalashnikov purchases, American enthusiasts have started buying civilian versions of weapons manufactured by the same factory.
The storied restaurant moved a step closer to winning interior landmark designation when the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed to schedule a hearing to review it.
Many of the marijuana-farming grandmothers of Swaziland, who supply South Africa’s drug market, started growing to support the offspring their children left behind when they died.
In Horton Foote’s “Harrison, TX,” conversation isn’t just a way of passing the time or swapping gossip.
A fight over the health care program for older Americans is intensifying in House and Senate races after Representative Paul D. Ryan’s selection as Mitt Romney’s running mate.
Passengers weary of the security and delays of airports are flocking to trains, which now dominate commercial travel in the Boston-Washington corridor.
There is no shortage of gay male comedians, but there has yet to be a standout gay stand-up.
Samsung’s new iPad rival, the Galaxy Note 10.1, is loaded with features, but not all are well organized or practical.
Tired of being tired when you travel across time zones? Here’s some advice for fighting jet lag, straight from a team at NASA.
There is already a lot of amorous language for Paul Ryan, but his suits could use an adjustment.
People who arrived in the United States as children and wish to stay lined up for blocks in several cities on the first day to apply for deportation deferrals and work permits.